"Agriculture land in Asia is under pressure ... there is an opportunity for responsible investment in agriculture by Asian countries in Africa," says India's Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.

Pension funds try to adopt a sustainability perspective when investing in farmland abroad, but there is not much consensus on what it means and how to measure it.

A true revolution would be in encouraging people's own agricultural innovations not creating new (African) markets for Big Business in agriculture, argues Shalini Bhutani.

The 2-minute animation 'There You Go!' shows how 'development' can rob self-sufficient tribal people of their land, livelihood and pride, and turn them into beggars.

Mauritanians living in Boghe, 300km south-west of Nouakchott, have asked their government to cancel a 31,000 ha rural land concession granted to a Saudi society, Al-Rajihi.

Forest clearance in the Congo basin from oil palm plantations and illegal logging has increased again since 2010 and the future is not rosy.

Chinese farming businesses are facing multiple challenges in their overseas push.

The top priority for Mitsui's massive investments in Australia is starting to shift from resources to agribusiness

Groups from across Asia meet in Manipur to share their experiences on some of the key process of land grabbing and its impact on agriculture in their respective countries.

At least 41 new land disputes were reported in Cambodia last year despite a government moratorium on the widespread grant of so-called economic land concessions.

The government is going to lease 600,000 hectares to local and foreign investors.

Write to Herakles Farms and tell the company to stop its intimidation of Nasako Besingi and other defenders of local communities and forests.